Drunken Boat features three special sections, that we call folios, in each issue. To propose a theme or topic for an upcoming folio, please submit a brief, 500-word description, making sure to specify what genres will be included in the content of your folio, and the names of some potential contributors (you do not need to already have content selected, just a few names as examples!).

Folios are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Currently, folio proposals are being considered for issue DB23 (December, 2015) and after.

Drunken Boat's newest section seeks not only to publish literary work in translation, but to be translation forward. We're excited about a wide range of submissions, but especially compelled by work that expands our literary, linguistic, or cultural horizons; work that knows translation is a conversation; important voices that have been marginalized; voices too contemporary, too rooted, or too resistant to have yet reached English-reading ears.

So show us the world. Send us up to five poems or one prose piece (max 5000 words). Highly recommended: a brief cover letter that informally contextualizes the text, author, and/or translation process. Note: Translations should not have been published previously, and Drunken Boat requires translators to clear all rights prior to submission.

Translations that foreground the creativity of the translator are welcome in this category. For translations that foreground the work of the original author, please see the appropriate genre section (i.e. poetry).